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Phoenix, the hot place

Having been riding at 114 it was far more than tingly. :laughing

Anything above 95 is fricking hot to this OG.
 
We've been bouncing off 100 for a couple weeks. Much better than last year, we were 100+ for, like, a month. Been much milder this year.

But it's hot enough that I'm not riding in to the office in OC. It's fine in the morning, I just don't want to fight the traffic lane splitting in the heat coming back.
 
Heat is something you get used to. I've been down here for 5 years now and 110 doesn't even phase me anymore. I've done 2 hard bike rides at 115 an 4 at 114, the trick is to pre-hydrate, use multiple cooling towels have a large capacity camelbak filled with gaterade and ice.

We had 1 day in july that didn't get over 100, it was 99. Your body adapts if you give it exposure, but you have to be smart about it.

I read a story on a motorcycle rider dying in Death Valley after trying to ride with insufficient fluids at 123+ last month.
 
If I stay out past noon here right now, the "feels like" temp reaches 108-110. It sucks but only really if you're not moving or moving slow. If I'm out in the twisties, it's doable. Especially if it's shaded by the trees.
 
I did a couple of schools in Phoenix at 111. On track for 15 20 minute sessions took a bit out of me. A couple of salt and one potassium tablet ever third ride, a bottle of ice water in me and another into my leathers every ride made it manageable.
 
Electrolyte powder would do the same thing.

I always had my son take 2-3 doses in the morning of a meet over 100 degrees then a couple more times throughout the day if it was over 105.

I found that when in a full or most body cramp, a 5x dose would clear it up within 20 seconds..pretty amazing how fast our bodies can distribute electrolytes when it really needs it.
 
Climber said:
Electrolyte powder would do the same thing.

I always had my son take 2-3 doses in the morning of a meet over 100 degrees then a couple more times throughout the day if it was over 105.

I found that when in a full or most body cramp, a 5x dose would clear it up within 20 seconds..pretty amazing how fast our bodies can distribute electrolytes when it really needs it.
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You’d have to consume a lot of electrolyte drink to equal a couple of 1000mg salt tabs. We use the electrolyte stuff too, but it’s not enough by itself to keep up with 8 hours of track riding at those temps.
 
Yeah, that is a lot of salt. That would be about 10 doses of the electrolyte powder I use.

Can you imagine how gaterade you'd have to drink to get that much? Not to mention the amount of sugar that would come along with that, which is why I went to electrolyte powder.

FWIW, before I began using the electrolyte powder, I was taking salt tabs like I used to at football practice in the 70's.
 
For the same reason I don't participate in polar bear plunges, riding through the desert in 130 degree heat also seems incredibly foolish just to add another notch to ones proverbial adventurism belt.
 
CDONA said:
Furnace Creek, temp sign @ 129 yesterday

Gauntlet has been thrown,
how many planning to challenge the heat next year?
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I'll pass. I was through there last year coming back Colorado and it was a mere 103 and that felt plenty hot at the end of a long hot riding day.
 
CDONA said:
Furnace Creek, temp sign @ 129 yesterday

Gauntlet has been thrown,
how many planning to challenge the heat next year?
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That's some very serious temperature. You have to acclimate, a bunch of preparation then execute with sufficient cooling and hydration to (somewhat) safely do that kind of temp. I've ridden hard in 115 degrees, but 129 is twice as bad with twice the heat transfer rate which makes it easily 6-8 times more dangerous. Without prep, riding through that at 60 degrees would leave you a desiccated husk after 15-20 minutes.
 
Kornholio said:
95 air temp or "feels like" temp? There's a huge difference.
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Real air temp. That is about the point where the face shield remains barely cracked.
Blow dryer in the eyes thing.
 
My biggest issue when riding my bike in 113+ temps is having my eyes dry out while I'm riding. I've been thinking of putting in eye drops before my ride as part of my prep.
 
I used to do that but found that cooling towels were more effective at keeping my bore body temp lower.
Also, I wear my glasses while riding, makes it easier to use my helmet mirror to see what's coming up behind me on the streets.
 
best method i've come up with so far for these elevated temps is to put a couple doors and an air conditioner on my motorcycle
 
Phoenix is screwed - they're going to run out of water and there will be nothing anyone can do about it.... And it just keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter.
 
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